chronic pain/illness

Fellow Travelers on the Journey

One of the great things about new visitors to your blog, especially ones that take a moment to write a comment, is the opportunity to discover new blogs and websites. I recently found a few which brought up a few issues I have dealt with myself. But You Don’t Look Sick and The ICI Experience [...]

Life’s Little Triumphs

Tonight I celebrated my long awaited triumphant return to my beloved bellydance class! It was delayed two weeks by my shoulder injury. So far I seem to be no worse for having danced my heart out. Nuff said about the simple pleasure of moving your body to music. The fact that I was 20 lbs [...]

Small Changes, Big Impact

Walking home from my Pilates session today, I was thinking about my success with losing weight. Fifteen pounds may be the most I’ve ever lost. I can remember losing 10 lbs a few times with great effort and sacrifice and then feeling stalled, discouraged and having a hard time keeping up what I was doing [...]

Everyone is an Expert

I let a recent post on another blog upset me which I know I shouldn’t do. For the most part I try to ignore the debates and speculation about Fibromyalgia. I’m just interested in information that I can apply to getting well. I learned to do my own research and then listen to my own [...]

Emerging from Silence

My voice hasn’t been present here for a few reasons, one being the sudden and wretched loss of my computer. I still await its return and use a feeble hobbling old computer for limited online activity. To tell you another reason involves reluctantly revealing the fact that I am on a diet. Yes, for me, [...]

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